In traditional japanese houses large spaces are separated for various purposes depending on the time and occasion.
Japanese house sliding doors.
These partitions came to be fitted into the walls but that caused inconvenience so grooves were made allowing the partitions to slide.
At times large rooms are used for parties and at others the room is separated and used as smaller private rooms.
One common feature of japanese houses is that they have many sliding doors.
This is the style seen in modern japanese houses today.
Traditional shoji are handmade by craftsmen called tategu ya.
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Interior walls of houses constructed with shoji doors can be removed from their tracks to expand the rooms for parties.
Shoji is a style of japanese sliding door.
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In ancient times they sometimes had dividing screens to partition large rooms.
Fusuma sliding doors used to separate rooms.
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Where light transmission is not needed the similar but opaque fusuma is used oshiire closet doors for instance shoji usually slide but may occasionally be hung or hinged.